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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by sethish »

conesus wrote: post #13

This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…

Thank you. I've tried newsblur, but I just hadn't had the impetus to switch until now.

    "Rumors of my death are much exaggerated"

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Post by jjsz »

josh-j wrote: post #77
callil wrote: post #15

Still he best way to read content on the web, really sad to see it go. Adding on to this: What he hell do I do with my starred items now, it's literally the best collection of content I have curated in my life and I reference it all the time. edit: petition to keep it open http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-don-t-kill-goo...

You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.

It doesn't pass unread items though.

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Post by miker64 »

reefab wrote: post #47

There is a whole app ecosystem built around Google Reader. This is going to be ugly. I actually it daily but only through apps like Reeder.

Yeah, I'm far more worried about the fact that pretty much all the iOS rss readers use Google Reader as a backend.

I'm going to be fubar for keeping different apps across devices all in sync...

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Post by zanny »

pasbesoin wrote: post #166

Lessons for the week: It's not yours unless it's 1) On your machine [a], and 2) DRM free. -- [a] As long as your machine remains "yours", i.e. free of the same restrictions.

I just exported my Greader profile into Akregator. Now to research if someone wrote an import of reader favorites JSON, or if I should just write the extension myself.

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Post by yread »

> CalDAV API will become available for whitelisted developers (only)

Wasn't a big brouhaha about windows phone only supporting Exchange protocol and not the open standard that's used by everyone: CalDAV? Oh, and now Google is discontinuing it! Let's see how much longer Exchange will last...

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Post by TillE »

EugeneOZ wrote: post #80

Just want to repeat here my tweets: Maybe GoLang will be retired in August? AngularJS in September? GAE in October? "Backed by Google" is a joke now. I just can't trust Google anymore. Google Reader was important part of my day - source of information. Google apps are too UNSTABLE to use.

Speaking of Twitter, I just checked my feed to find that a huge number of people I follow (from tech nerds to game developers to independent journalists) are upset that Google Reader is dying.

This seems like a huge mistake. Why doesn't Google want to be the one place I can go for everything? They should be cultivating that kind of brand loyalty, not stomping all over it.

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Post by SeppoErviala »

jws wrote: post #27

I'll take the blame for this. I use Google Reader heavily, but I never go to the web pages. I have native apps on my desktop and mobile devices and just use Reader to keep my subscriptions synced. No ad views, no service.

I have plenty of feeds that include ads. Reader shows all images and links that are part of the feed body so not going to the site should not be a problem.

If an ad supported feed provider fails to add ads to their feed they just do not understand the medium. One of the core ideas in RSS is to avoid visiting all the subscribed sites!

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Post by orionlogic »

I have thousands of websites inside Google Reader which serves me as a personal sub-internet. With archive and quick search within feeds was so much valuable for me. It was the only service of Google that i use second only to Gmail.

I think they made a quick short headed cost analysis in this, that archive and search functionality needs server power. Actual userbase does not provide enough money juice to balance.

Now, let the alternatives pour in.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by zanny »

icebraining wrote: post #151
aheilbut wrote: post #32

Are there any alternative sources of archival RSS feeds like those that Google Reader (unofficially) provides?

What's an archival RSS feed?

Greader will preserve its own history of a feed, including deleted items and feeds that go down, given someone on the Internet was accessing it, Google caches it.

It means when a website is taken offline, if you are subscribed to, say, a content RSS feed through them, you can still browse the history and content.

I just switched to Akregator, which will locally cache feeds (and you can configure it to do so permanantly) but it is a local copy. You can host your feeds via a feed host through it, so I imagine what I'm going to do is run Akregator off my server box, archive my feeds, and access it from my servers ip.

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